Hi there! I installed openSUSE 10.3 on my HD with Fedora Core 9 . This made FC9 partition get corrupted and cant boot it anymore! I’ve tried to use Fedora Installation CD to restore previous grub, but didn’t work. Fedora partition lies in sda4 in a LVM. Anyone can help me?
Thanks a lot
Tell us a little more - did it remove FC from the Grub? Does it show it but doesn’t allow booting to it?
Any grub errors?
It appears that OpenSUSE grub overridded FC9’s grub (according to the background). And now I can only choose either OpenSUSE or OpenSUSE failsafe…
I’ve posted in other forums and I have been told to do this:
1. Boot off the 1st Fedora CD or use the Fedora Rescue CD
2. At the boot prompt type 'linux rescue'
3. The rescue mode will find the fedora installation
4. Type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (without quotes)
5. Type 'grub-install /dev/sda' (to install Grub to the MBR of the 1st HD)
6. Restart and you should get the boot menu
1. Open a terminal as "su" & your password, then type "grub" - response will end with: "grub>_ "
2. "grub> find /boot/grub/stage1" which will give all locations of grub files.
3. "grub> root (hdx,x)" Select the grub location - substitute "x" for the drive/partition info from 2.
4. "grub> setup (hd0)" will install grub on the mbr of your first drive - adjust drive number as needed.
5. "grub> quit" closes the command.
6. Restart and test.
but haven’t worked
I dont know what happens… Maybe I can add a FC9 entry to the OpenSUSE grub menu but don’t know how to do that… I’m pretty noob :S
Thanks a lot!
Adding FC to the Grub should not be a big task at all - you can find a program called Boot Loader in YAST.
What you need to figure out is what partition Fedora is installed and you can do this by using fdisk -l in a terminal window (with root privileges) and it’ll list all the drives.
You can then use that as a root device.
this is the output for fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000cad3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18718 19457 5944050 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 2612 10224 61151422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 10225 18717 68220022+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 18718 19457 5944018+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/dm-0: 67.7 GB, 67712843776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8232 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
can you access your fedora disk in opensuse. If so you could just copy your grub menu.lst to the opensuse one. If not then I guess check out the grub recovery disc: Super Grub Disk Official Webpage